SB Nation Arizona - Eighth Inning Bullpen Collapse Dooms Snakes, Fall To Yanks 9-3https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/46593/arizona-fave.png2010-06-22T21:57:10-07:00http://arizona.sbnation.com/rss/stream/12942012010-06-22T21:57:10-07:002010-06-22T21:57:10-07:00Horrible Eighth Inning Pitching Sinks D-backs, Yanks Win 9-3
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<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/602/Alex_Rodriguez">Alex Rodriguez</a> homered and finished with three runs batted in while <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/610/Andy_Pettitte">Andy Pettitte</a> continued his stellar 2010 season with seven strong innings, as the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/teams/NYY">New York Yankees</a> defeated the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/teams/ARI">Arizona Diamondbacks</a>, 9-3, at Chase Field.</p>
<p>Pettitte (9-2) allowed two runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts for the Yankees, who bounced back from a 10-4 loss in Monday's opener of this three- game interleague series and won for the seventh time in their last 11 games overall.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/598/Derek_Jeter">Derek Jeter</a> and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/24/Nick_Swisher">Nick Swisher</a> both scored twice while rookie <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/31810/Colin_Curtis">Colin Curtis</a>, who played college ball at Arizona State, posted his first major league hit -- a two-run, pinch-hit double -- during a six-run eighth inning.</p>
<p>Arizona starting pitcher <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/28/Dan_Haren">Dan Haren</a> tossed seven solid innings and drove in two runs, but watched as his mates in the bullpen turn a close game into a rout. Haren (7-6) allowed three runs on six hits with eight strikeouts and one walk.</p>
<p>The Diamondbacks have now dropped six of their last eight games.</p>
<p>New York came to bat in the top of the eighth holding a 3-2 lead, but blew the game wide open with a six-run rally. <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/31246/Esmerling_Vasquez">Esmerling Vasquez</a> was on the mound and yielded a leadoff single to Jeter before Swisher doubled to right field. A single by <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/96/Mark_Teixeira">Mark Teixeira</a> followed and plated Jeter and a walk to Rodriguez loaded the bases.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/607/Robinson_Cano">Robinson Cano</a> then drilled the third single of the stanza, which brought home Swisher. <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/384/Chad_Qualls">Chad Qualls</a> then replaced Vasquez and did not fare much better. With the bases still loaded and no outs, a sacrifice fly by <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/606/Jorge_Posada">Jorge Posada</a> gave the Yanks a 6-3 cushion.</p>
<p>The next batter, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/272/Curtis_Granderson">Curtis Granderson</a>, laced a base hit to center and Rodriguez easily scored. Curtis then came on as a pinch-hitter for Pettitte and sent a fastball over the head of center fielder <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/247/Chris_Young">Chris Young</a>. As the ball rolled to the wall, Cano and Granderson easily scored and the visitors held a commanding 9-2 lead.</p>
<p>New York reliever <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/4337/Joba_Chamberlain">Joba Chamberlain</a> tossed a scoreless eighth before <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/35050/David_Robertson">David Robertson</a> took the mound in the ninth for the visitors.</p>
<p>Robertson surrendered a two-out RBI double to <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/959/Kelly_Johnson">Kelly Johnson</a> but struck out <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/34007/Cole_Gillespie">Cole Gillespie</a> to end the game.</p>
<p>The Yankees jumped out to an early led on a two-run homer by Rodriguez in the first inning. Jeter led off the game with a single and came around to score on the ninth homer of the season for Rodriguez, a blast that cleared the wall in left-center field.</p>
<p>"I came out and my stuff was just alright, made that one bad pitch trying to go inside, lifted it up a little over the plate, and he just got enough of it," Haren said. "It's a very good lineup obviously, so any mistake you make they will probably make you pay, besides that I kept the ball down for the most part, made my pitches and pitched ahead in the count for the most part."</p>
<p>In the home second, Haren aided his own cause and the Diamondbacks knotted the score. With two outs, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/358/Adam_LaRoche">Adam LaRoche</a> walked and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/688/Mark_Reynolds">Mark Reynolds</a> stroked a double before both crossed the plate on a single by Haren.</p>
<p>"Fortunately we won this game," Pettitte said. "Obviously when you give up a hit to the pitcher and we had a 2-nothing lead, again we scored runs late, it was a tough game. He (Haren) threw the ball well and fortunately we got a win."</p>
<p>Rodriguez drove in his third run of the night in the third stanza. Swisher laced a two-out single, moved to second on another single by Teixeira and scored on Rodriguez's base knock to center field for a 3-2 New York advantage.</p>
<p>From that point, the starting pitchers began to control the game. Pettitte worked perfect half-innings in the third and fourth before he worked around a pair of singles in the fifth by inducing an inning-ending grounder by <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../../mlb/players/690/Stephen_Drew">Stephen Drew</a>.</p>
<p>Haren, meanwhile, tossed a 1-2-3 fourth, got three straight outs in the fifth after Pettitte led off with a base hit and worked a perfect sixth.</p>
<p>Rodriguez increased his RBI total for the season to 48...The D'Backs left eight men on base...Pettitte owns a 2.48 ERA in 2010 -- he threw 113 pitches in this one (73 strikes)...New York was 5-for-8 with runners in scoring position.</p>
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<div class="entry" style="padding: 5px 10px;">(Sports Network) - <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/teams/ARI">Arizona Diamondbacks</a> ace <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/28/Dan_Haren">Dan Haren</a> has never lost to the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/teams/NYY">New York Yankees</a> in his career. That streak will be put to the test with the Bronx Bombers in town tonight for the second portion of this three-game interleague series at Chase Field.
<p>Haren has faced the Yankees seven times in his career -- all starts -- and is 4-0 with a 3.77 earned run average. Even though he hasn't faced them since the 2007 campaign while a member of the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/teams/OAK">Oakland Athletics</a>, Haren hopes his change of scenery will bear similar results.</p>
<p>In his last outing against New York on July 1, 2007, Haren benefited from great run support in an 11-5 triumph. The right-hander earned the victory despite giving up five runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.</p>
<p>Haren will try to get back on track Tuesday after having a personal two-start winning streak come to an end with Thursday's 8-5 setback at Boston in which he was dealt the loss for allowing six runs -- four earned -- on seven hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings. Haren, who is 5-2 in seven home starts this season, is 7-5 with a 4.71 ERA in 15 overall outings in 2010.</p>
<p>New York will counter with a veteran of its own in <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/610/Andy_Pettitte">Andy Pettitte</a>, who was 3-0 in a four-start stretch before losing for only the second time this season Thursday versus Philadelphia. Pettitte gave up three runs -- two earned -- on six hits and three walks in seven innings of his team's 7-1 loss.</p>
<p>Pettitte dropped to 8-2 to go along with a 2.47 earned run average in 13 starts this season. The left-hander, who is 2-0 in four road tilts this year, owns a 2-5 mark and a 4.24 ERA in seven career regular-season games (six starts) against the Diamondbacks.</p>
<p>The Yankees could use a solid pitching performance after what they got from streaky right-hander <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/1032/A_J_Burnett">A.J. Burnett</a> in last night's 10-4 loss in the series opener. Burnett was hammered for seven runs -- five in the first inning -- and nine hits, including three home runs, in only four innings of work. Chan Ho Park contributed to the misery by giving up three homers in two innings of relief.</p>
<p>"A little frustration, disappointed, you know how good I am and how I should be throwing the ball," Burnett said after the defending World Series champions lost for the fourth time in six tries. "The past handful of starts I haven't been giving my team a chance, from out of the gate. I'm preparing, I'm doing my work in between, just not executing out there in the game."</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/24/Nick_Swisher">Nick Swisher</a> drove in two runs, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/31806/Brett_Gardner">Brett Gardner</a> went 4-for-4 with two runs scored and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/602/Alex_Rodriguez">Alex Rodriguez</a> knocked in a run for the Yankees, whose modest two- game winning streak came to an end. The Yankees still lead the American League East Division by a half-game over Tampa Bay and Boston, and have the best record in baseball at 43-27.</p>
<p>Arizona won for the second time in three games after losing four in a row. <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/4313/Justin_Upton">Justin Upton</a> had a huge night for the D'Backs, going 3-for-3 with two home runs, four RBI and four runs scored.</p>
<p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/358/Adam_LaRoche">Adam LaRoche</a> hit a three-run homer during the explosive first inning and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/688/Mark_Reynolds">Mark Reynolds</a> clubbed his 17th homer of the season for Arizona, which got eight decent innings out of starter <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="../../mlb/players/548/Rodrigo_Lopez">Rodrigo Lopez</a>. He held the Yankees to three runs on eight hits and two walks to improve to 3-6 on the season.</p>
<p>"We set the tone pretty early," said Arizona manager A.J. Hinch. "Rodrigo came in and retired them quickly in the first inning, with all strikes. A first- pitch out to [Yankees shortstop Derek] Jeter was big; getting three up and three down, and get on them right away, gave us some momentum."</p>
<p>The Yankees are 7-3 all-time in regular season games with Arizona and swept a three-game series in the Bronx the last time these two clubs squared off in 2007. The Yankees outscored the D'Backs, 18-4, in those games. Arizona, of course, beat New York in seven games to win the 2001 World Series.</p>
<p>New York is 140-101 in interleague play, while the D'Backs are 88-109.</p>
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